St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-25

latlons was acting III the most peaceful
way and on the side of peace. so as to fur
nish opportunity to the government of
Great Britain to reflect upon the question
! how much this was going to
| DAMAGE HER COMMERCE.
The committee wanted to present an op-
| portunity for good reflection. 1t would not
| be necessary for the president of the United
States to issue a proclamation of entire sus-
pension OF commercial relations with Can
ada or with any other part of Great Britain
He was quite sure that when Canadian
! fisherman found that there was no market
in the United States for pound of their
fish they would at once constt ! the pocket
nerve. 1t would be found quite easy to az
range all difficulties without resortng to
! the war-making powers. There was no war
! i'll this measure. There was peace in it
and nothing else. But if the troubles were
/ allowed to go on there would be war in
them and war beyond the control of con-
! gress. The first blood that would be drawn
! III a controversy of this kind on the Cana
! dian coast would be the tocsn of war The
! people of the United States would
/ be plunged into war by this just
as rapidly as they had been by
/ John Browns raid on Harpers Ferry.
! A1llu ttlCl hOulu ~ luIO III
American fishermen would find. in defense
of their rights, just as much support on the
! Gulf of Mexico as on the coast of Maine
/ 1t was, therefore. worth while for both
countries to arm themselves with all the
power of law that might be necessary to
prevent conflict between individuals by
which
A WAR MIGHT BE PRECIPITATED
! beyond the power Of congress to control
! The senate could not afford to stand still
under those circumstances. The commit
| tee on foreign relations had felt that it
would not be eXcusable if. in such all exi-
gency.l declined to act in a matter of so great
Importance. Mr.. Evarts argued in support
of the bill, which, he said. was not in the
nature OF Il menace or tending at all in that
direction. 1t was the duty of congress, he
said 10 take the subject away from local
| disturbance, irritation and resentment. So
far from the bill tending to war or tending
| to umbrage, it was intended to have a con-
trary effect. 1t was an immediate an
nouncement to the people that they had
only to trust their protection, not to per-
| sonal resentment, but to the government of
the United States. and when the opening
summer should bring about the recurrence
of the fishing season and of the fishing
dangers the question would be removed
from that theater of collision. and. if not
concluded. it would be under the control of
| both governments in deliberate considera-
| ton of what should be done in order to
| have stability Of intercourse and in order to
| give stability to the peace and dignity of
the two great nations-the United States
and Great Britain. Mr.. Hale declared him
self earnestly in favor of the bill. Its pro-
visions were not harsh, but moderate; and
he believed that their provisions when en-
acted into law and carried out by the eX-
ecutive, would be efficacious. The situation
for year past had been
SIMPLY INTOLERABLE.
AggressiOnS on American fishing inter
ests by the Dominion authorities had been
persisted i'll against every eXpoStulation and
entreaty on the part of the United States
| They were such as had never been SUBJ
mitted to since the infant days of the re-
| public. He was bound to believe that those
aggressions on the right of American citi
Zens (high- h-handed as they had been) had
not been brought about by accident, but
were the result of deliberate premedtation
and predetermination. If these acts did
not cease, that was an end of negotiations
and there must be some other process re-
sorted to. The least desired pro-
cess is the appeal to that most
| formidable trbunal-declared hostilites
war. He thought the proposed
retaliatory measures would bring our neigh
| borS to their senses, but until the American
congress should SEND this note-not of men
| ace, but OF warlnng-these things would con-
| tinue. Mr.. Vest said: sit goes without saying
that if the rights of the humblest citizen of
the United States shall be attacked by any
| foreign power. there would exist an unan-
unity of sentiment on the part of the people
of the United States that those
RIGHTS SHOULD BE PROTECTED,
and that the glory and honor of the Ameri-
can people should be preserved. As the
senator from Alabama has very well said,
| there will be no geographical or sectional
difference if this issue is ever made, and it
will be found that the men who were
arrayed against each other in battle
so lately will stand together in solid pha-
lanX in defense of these rights and honor.
! But, Mr.. President, all this talk which runs
| to meet any such thing as war with the
other great English-speaking people of the
world is to be deprecated. 1t is enough for
us to meet any such contingency when it is
absolutely impossible to avoid it. AS for
myself, | can safely say that have no sort
of prejudice in favor Of England or her in
| StitutionS which prevents me now from
saying that [ would not hesitate one single
instant as to the consequences if the issue
of individual rights or national honor be
presented to this congress OF the people.
But it becomes us, Mr.. President, to con-
! slider well every step we take i'll regard to
| this
MOST PERILOUS COMPLICATION.
! England was not without some pretense
| of right in her construction of the treaty of
1915. In relation to these fishery difficult
| ties Great Britain stood to the United
| States precisely as the United States had
stood in relation to Mexico when the DIFF
ficulties on the Rio Grande brought about
the Mexican war. Every intelligent man
knew how local prejudices and contguity
famed into fame difficulties which of
themselves might be susceptible of ad-
! justment. OF all the calamities
that could befell this country war be-
tween Great Britain and the United States
would be the greatest. The pending bill
| (for which he expected to vote) comes be-
fore the senate in the nature Of PROPOSE
| ton for commercial embargo. If not war.
| it was the half-Sister of war. Still. he
would vote for the bill because it con-
tanned provision that the president should
have the discretionary power in the matter.
| He would hot vote for it as a mandatory
| Dill. he would not take the responsibility
Of saying the president should
DECLARE THIS EMBARGO
while negotiations were still pending, and
, while senators know the full results of
what war with Great Britain might mean.
1t was well enough to talk in a rhetorical
| style about war with Great Britain When
they come to the matter of military re.
| sources, there were some things which had
| better be said in secret session The world
| i'll arms could not conquer the United
| States on its own soil, nor five such worlds
in arms. The people of the United States